In Fed we trust : Ben Bernanke's war on the great panic / David Wessel.
2009
332.110973 W515i 2009
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Title
In Fed we trust : Ben Bernanke's war on the great panic / David Wessel.
Author
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
9780307459688
0307459683
0307459683
Imprint
New York : Crown Business, c2009.
Language
English
Description
xii, 323 p. ; 24 cm.
Call Number
332.110973 W515i 2009
System Control No.
(OCoLC)299706971
(OCoLC)299706971
(OCoLC)299706971
Summary
In this penetrating look inside the most powerful economic institution in the world, the Federal Reserve, David Wessel illuminates its opaque and undemocratic inner workings, while revealing how its chairman Ben Bernanke led the desperate effort to prevent the world's financial engine from grinding to a halt.
Note
"How the federal reserve became the fourth branch of government"--Dust jkt.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-302; [307]-308) and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Let ol' Lehman go : the pivotal weekend of September 12-14, 2008
"Periodical financial debauches" : the long-forgotten history of the Fed
Age of delusion : what Greenspan wrought
There are Jews in Boston, too : who is Ben Bernanke?
Pas de deux : the great panic begins in August 2007
The four Musketeers : Bernanke's brain trust ; Bernanke, Kohn, Warsh, and Geithner
Re: Re: ... Blue sky : the Fed's first response to the great panic
Running from behind : how the Fed got behind the curve, and how it caught up
"Unusual and exigent" : Bear Stearns, the first rescue
Fannie, Freddie, and "Feddie" : taking over Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, and pondering next steps
Breaking the glass : the fallout from Lehman and AIG and going to Congress
finally
"Socialism with American characteristics" : forcing taxpayer capital on the banks
World of ZIRP : the Fed gets rates to zero
Did Bernanke kep his promise to Milton Friedman? the early verdict.
"Periodical financial debauches" : the long-forgotten history of the Fed
Age of delusion : what Greenspan wrought
There are Jews in Boston, too : who is Ben Bernanke?
Pas de deux : the great panic begins in August 2007
The four Musketeers : Bernanke's brain trust ; Bernanke, Kohn, Warsh, and Geithner
Re: Re: ... Blue sky : the Fed's first response to the great panic
Running from behind : how the Fed got behind the curve, and how it caught up
"Unusual and exigent" : Bear Stearns, the first rescue
Fannie, Freddie, and "Feddie" : taking over Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, and pondering next steps
Breaking the glass : the fallout from Lehman and AIG and going to Congress
finally
"Socialism with American characteristics" : forcing taxpayer capital on the banks
World of ZIRP : the Fed gets rates to zero
Did Bernanke kep his promise to Milton Friedman? the early verdict.
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